Jamie Rogers

Work place: Department of IMSE, The University of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA

E-mail: jrogers@uta.edu

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Research Interests: Computational Engineering, Engineering

Biography

Jamie Rogers is currently a UT-System Regents’ Outstanding Teacher, Professor and Associate Chair of the IMSE Department at the UT-Arlington. Dr. Rogers is serving as 2019-20 President for the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) and has served as 2014-15 ABET President which now accredits approximately 4,005 programs at over 793 institutions in 32 countries worldwide. She served as Faculty Advisor for the IISE Gold Award winning UTA Student Chapter (1994-2019) and was inducted into the University of Missouri Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Hall of Fame in 2013. She has received over $3.6M in funding as PI or Co-PI, successfully supervised 33 PhD dissertations, and published over 140 papers worldwide. Dr. Rogers is a Fellow in IISE, an ABET Fellow, and a Registered Professional Engineer in Texas. Prior to joining academia, she worked at Texas Instruments in various engineering and management positions in defense electronics and semiconductor business areas.

Author Articles
Wart Treatment Decision Support Using Support Vector Machine

By Md. Mamunur Rahman Yuan Zhou Shouyi Wang Jamie Rogers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2020.01.01, Pub. Date: 8 Feb. 2020

Warts are noncancerous benign tumors caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). The success rates of cryotherapy and immunotherapy, two common treatment methods for cutaneous warts, are 44% and 72%, respectively. The treatment methods, therefore, fail to cure a significant percentage of the patients. This study aims to develop a reliable machine learning model to accurately predict the success of immunotherapy and cryotherapy for individual patients based on their demographic and clinical characteristics. We employed support vector machine (SVM) classifier utilizing a dataset of 180 patients who were suffering from various types of warts and received treatment either by immunotherapy or cryotherapy. To balance the minority class, we utilized three different oversampling methods- synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE), borderline-SMOTE, and adaptive synthetic (ADASYN) sampling. F-score along with sequential backward selection (SBS) algorithm were utilized to extract the best set of features. For the immunotherapy treatment method, SVM with radial basis function (RBF) kernel obtained an overall classification accuracy of 94.6% (sensitivity = 96.0%, specificity = 89.5%), and for the cryotherapy treatment method, SVM with polynomial kernel obtained an overall classification accuracy of 95.9% (sensitivity = 94.3%, specificity = 97.4%). The obtained results are competitive and comparable with the congeneric research works available in the literature, especially for the immunotherapy treatment method, we obtained 4.6% higher accuracy compared to the existing works. The developed methodology could potentially assist the dermatologists as a decision support tool by predicting the success of every unique patient before starting the treatment process.

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